Solid Edge Catia Translator Fact Sheet

Solid Edge Catia Translator Fact Sheet

SOLID EDGE
Solid Edge/Catia translator
Benefits
• Translate Catia data in an
efficient and effective
manner
• Work with suppliers or
customers in a more
cohesive manner
• Create better designs,
enhance communications,
increase customer
satisfaction and deliver
significant cost savings
Summary
Solid Edge®/Catia translator software is a powerful migration tool for Solid
Edge users who need to reference Catia data from their customers and/or
suppliers in their product designs. By translating Catia data from and to Solid
Edge, companies can expect an increase in design communication, quality
and productivity, as well as significant cost savings. Whether it’s designing
tooling or components for an assembly, it no longer matters if customers or
suppliers are using Catia data. Solid Edge provides the right tools to help you
stay ahead of the competition and provide data in a timely, cost effective
manner.
Features
• Users can easily leverage the
translator’s bidirectional
capabilities when handling
Catia files
• The heal and sew option
allows you to “heal” free
surfaces and solids when
importing them into
Solid Edge
• Solid Edge automatically
specifies a stitch tolerance
range, so you are not
required to specify a stitch
range or tolerance
• The Solid Edge/Catia
translator is a separately
purchasable item available in
both node locked and
floating licenses
• The batch processor provides
the ability to import one or
more Catia
.model files
VELOCITY SERIES
www.siemens.com/velocity
SOLID EDGE
Solid Edge/Catia translator
The Solid Edge/Catia translator provides
Solid Edge users with the ability to
translate Catia data in an efficient and
effective manner. Importing or exporting
Catia model files with the Solid Edge/Catia
translator allows design engineers to work
with suppliers or customers in a more
cohesive manner. With the Catia translator,
users can design parts or assemblies in
Solid Edge and then translate data into the
required Catia format – or read in Catia
data and continue designs in Solid Edge.
The benefits of using the Solid Edge/Catia
translator are clear – better designs,
enhanced communication and an increase
in customer satisfaction.
The Solid Edge/Catia translator provides
bi-directional translation capabilities for
Catia files, extending Solid Edge
translation capabilities for opening foreign
data to help you in markets where Catia
translation is necessary.
The translator is capable of reading Catia
4.1.9 and 4.2.X (up to 4.2.4) and will write
Catia 4.1.9. A separate module is also
available for reading and writing Catia 5
files. Both translators support single part
files, or multiple bodies can be opened
into a Solid Edge assembly.
Templates supported in Solid Edge are
.asm, .prt, .psm. Data can have several
options applied together, such as stitch
surfaces and Boolean solids. Solids can
also be feature recognized if Feature
Recognizer also has been purchased. The
Solid Edge/Catia translator is a separately
purchasable item available in both node
locked and floating licenses.
Contact
Siemens PLM Software
Americas
800 807 2200
Europe
44 (0) 1202 243455
Asia-Pacific 852 2230 3308
www.siemens.com/velocity
This batch processor provides the ability to
import one or more Catia .model files, or
export one or more x_t, part or sheetmetal
files to .model format.
On Import, the Solid Edge/Catia translator
has an option to:
• Heal and stitch – This option specifies
that you want to heal and stitch the free
surfaces to create a solid body. Solid
Edge automatically specifies a stitch
tolerance range, so you are not required
to specify a range.
This option allows you to “heal” free
surfaces and solids when importing
them into Solid Edge. Healing involves
preparing the free surfaces for stitching
and the cleaning of solid bodies. Solid
Edge cleans the faces to resolve
underlying problems such as selfintersection, multiple intersections or
edges equal to or smaller than the
minimum stitching tolerance. Once the
faces are cleaned, Solid Edge identifies
and removes sheets that are invalid due
to bad trimming curves, or sheets that
result in slivers.
• Stitch surfaces – The Solid Edge/Catia
translator reads and translates surface
data from the Catia model file. When
stitching is enabled (default setting) all
surfaces will be stitched. Solid Edge
automatically specifies a stitch tolerance
range, so you are not required to specify
a range. If the stitching operation
creates a valid volume, the volume is
converted to a solid.
• Boolean solids – This option specifies
that you want to Boolean all solid bodies
together to form a solid or a disjoint
solid body and then insert these bodies
into Edge Bar as a part copy. This option
is on by default. If the option is off, all
solid bodies are added as individual part
copies to Edge Bar.
When exporting data from Solid Edge to
Catia, you can filter what type of data you
want to export:
Export solids (constructions) Specifies
that you want to export any construction
geometry that exists as solid bodies.
Export sheets (constructions) Specifies
that you want to export any construction
geometry that exists as sheet bodies.
Export wires (constructions) and general
Specifies that you want to export any
construction geometry that exists as wire
bodies.
Export displayed only Specifies that you
want to export only the active model and
construction geometry that is visible in the
part or assembly.
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